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At the bottom of this page you find links to good, to be avoided and not advisable room mode calculators.
click original main topic: ACCEPTABLE ROOM RATIOS (an overview)
A first remark:
This topic is not meant to discuss or dispute the use and method of Room Ratios in itself, but as an analysis and graphical presentation of the published M.M. Louden Ratios.
1971: M. M. Louden listed 125 dimension ratios arranged in descending order of room acoustic quality.
Dimension-ratios of Rectangular Rooms With Good Distribution of Eigentones.
Acustica, Volume 24, 1971, pp 101-103/104.
- This list does NOT represent 125 acceptable room ratios, but a list resulting from 153 grid points.
From these 153 Matrix points 28 were double having reversed x/y ratios, resulting in the published 125.
To check this logic these doubles are masked by the hatched triangle in the graph.
Some of the published ratios are located in that hatched triangle, and the corresponding ones in the main area lacking.
That seems to justify the assumption that M. M. Louden's publication in 1971 was influenced by much less powerful
and flexible calculation means than available nowadays.
Using this method, unlike ratios of other authors ALL Louden ratios yield standard 1 decimal on the x & y ratios.
With modern means it's possible to extract the acoustic logic from this huge list of ratios ranging from best to really ugly, to be avoided, ratios, reorganize and map them.
Analyzing this graphical presentation one can notice that within the by M. M. Louden published ratios and used method, better ratio points/ranges can be extracted using 2 (rather than 1) decimals are used for the Length/Width values.
Several in-between areas are better than the ones published by M. M. Louden himself.
A graphical approach is easier and user friendlier than huge lists of ratios, giving additional insight in the logic and trends of the original published data.
This results in the following stylized graphical analysis (Copyright ©: Eric Desart)
The numbered markers are the as 5 best published ratios in order of quality.
Theoretically as per the Louden approach: (scale pragmatically defined by ED) the perfect ratio should be 0.00
The worst published Louden Ratio interpreted as 1.00.
Hence the lower the number the better.
The best published M. M. Louden Ratio as per this scale = 0.4046
The best ratio the Author calculated over 3321 points = 0.3865. This is included in the darkest green areas (best ranges).
In-between values in this 3321 points grid, likely very small areas can go somewhat lower to somewhere between 0.385 to 0.386 (only higher resolution analysis will show these).
These numbers improve towards the center of these darkest green areas, but will likely go nowhere below this 0.385+ as bottom value.
What you can see is that there is not such a thing as a perfect ratio. The scale on the graph starts at 0.38
When we search for the 3 best M.M. Louden ratios of the 3 dark green areas representing 3 typical different room shapes then we come to the following 3 best M.M. Louden ratios (ratios calculated by E. Desart, not published ones - Right bottom green areas not included since they are just reversed L/W ratios)
Some BEST ratios:
- Flattest room (top dark green area):
Ratio: 1:1.50:2.14 - L: 2.14 - W: 1.50 - Quality: 39.98% (-/17)
Ratio: 1:1.51:2.14 - L: 2.14 - W: 1.51 - Quality:< 39.98% (-/better than 17) (not in Tables, but better than the above)
Closest published M.M. Louden ratios:
Ratio: 1:1.50:2.10 - L: 2.10 - W: 1.50 - Quality: 41.28% (3/42)
Ratio: 1:1.50:2.20 - L: 2.20 - W: 1.50 - Quality: 42.65% (4/86)
- Middle flat room (middle dark green area):
Ratio: 1:1.36:1.86 - L: 1.88 - W: 1.36 - Quality: 38.65% (-/1)
Closest published M.M. Louden ratios:
Ratio: 1:1.40:1.90 - L: 1.90 - W: 1.40 - Quality: 40.46% (1/26)
Ratio: 1:1.30:1.90 - L: 1.90 - W: 1.30 - Quality: 40.80% (2/31)
- Least flat room shape (bottom dark green area):
Ratio: 1:1.16:1.44 - L: 1.44 - W: 1.16 - Quality: 41.86% (-/52)
Closest published M.M. Louden ratios:
Ratio: 1:1.20:1.50 - L: 1.50 - W: 1.20 - Quality: 42.98% (5/97)
Ratio: 1:1.10:1.40 - L: 1.40 - W: 1.10 - Quality: 43.34% (7/115)
Ratio: 1:1.20:1.40 - L: 1.40 - W: 1.20 - Quality: 44.58% (10/158)
As one can notice the difference in rating Length and Width ratios with 2 significant decimals versus the 1 significant decimal in the original M.M. Louden study can shift the sort order in a significant manner.
In very rough terms one could state that only the first 20 room ratios of M.M. Louden can be useful for practical applications, while simultaneously his broad approach of publishing all 125 (when reorganized and mapped with representative algorithms) gives a good picture of trends and logic in a room.
Hence from a practical point of view only the first 20 are sensible, from a scientific point of view they all are.
The answer: "BAD", as a scientific result, is equally useful to a result which is: "GOOD".
Numbers between brackets e.g. (-/17) or (10/158):
1st number: Original M.M. Louden sort order, 2nd number: E. Desart tables sort order.
Note: The Author should need to manually correct the lobbing appearing around the 1/1 length/width ratio (the 1.2:1.2 to 1.8:1.8 45° line), which is caused by too little input data, but practically little matters. The Author doesn't like to rape the used algorithms or numbers just to make it look nicer/more logical there.
Maybe (not sure) will apply some improvements in the future. The solution is entering more in-between data points on this 45° line by 2D regression, preventing the rest of the graph to be negatively influenced, before remapping all data.
The following Tables are synchronized with the detailed M.M. Louden - E.Desart © Topograph as well for the rating as for the color coding.
The graph presents rating as a value from 0.00 to 1.00, while the Tables present the same, for pragmatic reasons as a percentage.
Tables 1a & 1b
433 dimension ratios arranged in descending order of room acoustic quality.
This covers all room ratios with a < 0.50 (graph) or 50% (tables) rating.
These 433 values include the 18 best published M.M. Louden ratios (yellow colored lines), meaning all others are worse.
Tables 2a & 2b
433 dimension ratios arranged in function of Length and Width ratios.
This covers all room ratios with a < 0.50 (graph) or 50% (tables) rating.
These 433 values include the 18 best published M.M. Louden ratios (yellow colored lines), meaning all others are worse.
A pertinent advise:
- If a visitor wants to judge a room in function of its ratios,
NEVER use a Room Modes Calculator which DOES NOT take the
Tangential and Oblique modes into account
Only taking the Axial modes into account can be alright but can as well lead to WRONG conclusions.
One just doesn't know!
click here: ACCEPTABLE ROOM RATIOS (an overview)
Note that about any Author which published acceptable ratios, no matter the manner they obtained them, toke ALL modes into account (axial AND non-axial).
The discussion of the validity of using room mode calculators or not, is an entirely different matter not discussed here.
The more a room will divert from a rectangular shape with statistical symmetrical boundary absorption/reflectivity over the to be investigated frequency range, the less reliable the calculated numbers become.
Either one uses a room mode calculator or not.
If one chooses to use one, then use a good one. There are many public available or accessible for personal use.
An interesting practical and theoretical experiment by:
Art Ludwig: BS - Caltech; MD Mathematics and EE - USC; Ph.D. Engineering - USC
http://www.silcom.com/~aludwig/Room_aco ... calculated.
Some often referred or quality Room Mode calculators: Please DO respect Copyright of the respective © owners.
TO BE ADVISED: fulfilling the above requirement of calculating ALL modes (arbitrary sort order):
- By © HARMAN - Dr. Floyd E. Toole, Vice President Acoustical Engineering, Harman International Industries, Inc.
- By © University of Salford UK - Prof Dr. Trevor Cox (this are lists of rated room modes, no calculators)
- These ratios are room size dependent, as such involve possibly/likely a geometric "source to room" relationship (still to check).
http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acou ... ntent=best
Best ratios:
http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acou ... ratios.xls
Second Bests:
http://www.acoustics.salford.ac.uk/acou ... d_best.zip
- By © John Griggs: (JAVA program - metric & imperial)
http://forum.studiotips.com/viewtopic.php?p=27336#27336 Only to be downloaded via post (no direct link), registered members only.
- This is a rather unique program designed by John Griggs, and the ONLY freeware tool, capable of finding optimum room measures between user set boundaries.
It goes much further than traditional room mode calculators, by allowing the user to set any combination of different published comply/reject methods originating from several authors + one comply/rejection algorithm designed by the software designer himself.
- By © Bob Golds: One of the best on-line HTML/JAVA Room Mode Calculators (metric & imperial)
- A very popular one, giving lots of additional info.
- By © Dr. Jörg Hunecke: A very unique on-line calculator (only metric)
http://www.hunecke.de/en/calculators/ro ... modes.html
- This page can interactively show a 3D graph of the calculated modes, even the oblique ones (not so evident and AFAIK unique on-line).
It calculates only the first 20 modes (no matter which type) which are likely the most dominant (but could be a limitation), but does this in a very neat surveyable manner.
The interactive graphical 3D presentation of these modes makes this calculator standout, if only for this feature.
Hence I see this calculator more as a very good and neat educational page than a complete calculator.
Yet it is a handy calculator as long as one is certain that one investigates a problem <= 20th mode frequency.
- By © Eric Desart, R&D acoustician Antwerp/Belgium (metric & imperial)
http://forum.studiotips.com/large_files ... ulator.zip
- By © Jeff D. Szymanski, Ex-Chief Acoustical Engineer Auralex (haven't checked difference between both files yet)
http://rodssoundsolutions.com/files/Roo ... ulator.xls
- By © Chris Whealy,
http://www.whealy.com/acoustics/ControlRoom.html (note this file does more than modes)
- By © Mark Wieczorek, (metric and imperial)
http://www.marktaw.com/recording/Acoust ... Calcu.html
- Just a listing, but what it gives seems correct.
- Yet to be completed, as they come to the attention of the Author.
- Yet to be completed.
- OUT OF CATEGORY; This are NO Room Mode Calculators.
- By © FRD Consortium, Yavuz Aksan 2002
- Room Response Calculator modeling the ambient response of rectangular shaped rooms by recursive reflection.
The user positions the listener and one or two speakers and sizes the room, selects and tunes calculation density and wall reflectivity. The program models frequency response and energy delay timing for closed box systems in mono and stereo and has an excellent approximation for a mono dipole.
Not tested yet, but at a first glance worth investigating.
- Yet to be completed, as they come to the attention of the Author.
- By © FRD Consortium, Yavuz Aksan 2002
TO BE AVOIDED for diverse reasons (arbitrary sort order):
- By © Mc Squared System Design Group, Inc.
Mode Calculator Metric version:
Mode Calculator Imperial Version:
- It's a pity: It looks as nice on-line calculators comprising the non-axial modes.
However these non-axial modes are far from complete by the mathematical build-up of these pages.
You get a lot of senseless non-axial modes going unnecessary high in the frequency range, while most of these being important are lacking.
The author contacted Mc Squared about this some years back, with as sole result that they altered the accompanying text a bit, more to act as a disclaimer than making the calculators more useful.
For people relying on the presence of these calculated non-axials, these calculators are badly misleading.
Only experts will automatically recognize this limitation (still not making the related pages more useful), but that's not the target group such pages are aiming at.
- By © Sengpiel Audio., Dipl.-Ing. Eberhard Sengpiel (Metric)
http://www.sengpielaudio.com/calculator-roommodes.htm (English)
http://www.sengpielaudio.com/Rechner-raum-moden.htm (German)
I made copy of all related pages, as prove for the correctness of my statements.
This Dipl.-Ing. is Lecturer at the Universität der Künste Berlin - UdK - Fakultät Musik
All comments related to the above Mc Squared Room mode calculators apply here since the related mathematical source code is just plain copied. (I followed these sites since ca 2000).
But additionally, and unlike Mc Squared, rather than at least explaining what that room mode calculator does (did E. Sengpiel understood/saw himself?), allowing experts to see where these limitations come from or relate to, this text wasn't copied.
In fact you need another good calculator to see that this one lacks important modes and as such worthless and very risky.
Hence this 'room mode calculator' is a perfect example of what a calculator and educational/scientific attitude should NOT be.
This makes me enormous frustrated. I'm getting, as a matter of speech, almost used on the net that all too often commercial companies and private persons don't bother about Copyright and respect for sources. Giving rightful and/or legal credit seems all too often more a sin than a virtue.
But if even a lecturer in higher education, who's job it is to teach people, setting standards, being supposed to have a model role giving the example, then educational scientific attitude is going down. This attitude suggests that there must be more comparable stuff on the owners extensive site.
For the same attitude, a teacher is supposed/expected to warn or sack his own students.
Special software is developed and used nowadays designated to search the net for plagiarism, too often shown by students.
Being a lecturer for Higher Music Education E. Sengpiel should be ashamed of himself.
- By KlipschCorner.com, Damon Payne (On-Line calculator - Imperial only)
- It's a pity: It looks as a nice on-line calculator comprising the non-axial modes.
This calculator however seems to calculate wrongly, including either a principle error, or a poetic license.
I can't figure out the principle involved, nor how exactly the mode strength is defined.
This calculator seems to calculate non-existing oblique modes. Hence I checked no further if other anomalies are involved or not.
- Yet to be completed, as they come to the attention of the Author.
NOT TO BE ADVISED due to LACKING NON-AXIALS (arbitrary sort order):
- By © REALTRAPS - Ethan Winer, (metric & imperial)
recent Windows version:
original DOS version:
- This is most likely the most linked and referred Room Mode Calculator (caused by the huge net and commercial penetration of © owner).
However, here one can clearly state that net penetration is no synonym for acoustic quality.
The author uses as (pseudo) argument user-friendliness, which, as per many professionals is a false argument.
User-friendliness obtained by simplification causing potential wrong decisions/conclusions is not user-friendly at all.
This calculator is a contradiction in itself by advising ratios, which by their respective Authors (not referred to, or given credit by the designer of this tool) are based on "ALL modes" calculations, while the calculator isn't capable to reproduce them, showing why they are officially published advised ratios.
Several of them should be very clearly rejected on the "axials ALONE" approach, looking quite ugly as modal distribution.
This shortcoming is extensively discussed on several occasions over the years with RealTraps' owner Ethan Winer.
The above quote of Albert Einstein applies. Why? - because they become potentially wrong or misleading.
User-friendliness must be provided by the design of software, not by skipping useful or necessary data.
As per the worldwide respected "Scientific Method" an "axials alone" calculator, to judge room measures/ratios, is to be rejected. click: Scientific Method
There are many others on the net, reason being that, making an ALL-MODES calculator graphical enough to preserve user-friendliness isn't easy.
Hence lots of them are more simplified listings, which are executed in relative simple manners.
The above room calculator lists do not pursue to be complete (impossible task).
The author will gladly add additional calculators in this list as they are brought to his attention and represent some significant impact on the acoustic community on the net, or distinct themselves by their proper approach or quality. Hence this list is dynamic.
Items can be added or removed, trying to preserve oversight of these items which are most important. The Author knows that this is as well pragmatic as subjective, and is therefore open to related suggestions.
Have Fun with this stuff....
(for me an enormous amount of work was involved, hence you must have fun with it, as return on investment)
Eric Desart
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This is my first post and I am new to Puppy Linux so a quick hello and a big thank you to everyone involved in the project.
I am looking to install Enlightment E17 on my system as it looks fantastic and gives Puppy a nice modern feel. Unfortunately the existing .pets/.sfs do not work for me (I believe they are for an older version of Puppy) and whilst MacPup looks great and works out of the box I would prefer to build my own system in the way that I would like it.
I have resorted to compiling E17 from source and now that I have my head round the basic dependencies and build order I can get it compiled within an hour. I intend to make a .pup/.sfs available so that everyone else can benefit from my labour but first I have a couple of quick questions to help me along.
1. I have had to use the retro version of Puppy 4.12 as I cannot get my wireless drivers to work with the normal version. I originally tried using 4.2 retro and renaming devx_412.sfs to devx_420.sfs however I received errors regarding missing X.h files when trying to configure the source. I am able to make everything work using pup4.12retro and a renamed dex_400.sfs (I understand it is the kernel version that is important not the puppy version - is this correct?) however the same renamed devx_400.sfs produces the same configure error in pup4.2retro. Obviously I would prefer to use the latest version if possible - is there a devx_420.sfs or a workaround available?
2. The unstripped E17 files (with all the dev and doc files) is about 55 mb at present. Naturally, I will separate these and remove and unnecessary files before upload but I was wondering how everyone normally prefers to add programs... as .pup files or .sfs files as I cannot see much different so far as pros/cons go?
3. I have a strange issue when loading the E17 window manager which I think may be a Puppy issue rather than an E17 one. Xwin loads E17 just fine expect that once it is loaded, rather than showing the E17 desktop it shows the default jwm desktop/icons, however, once you click the mouse it updates and shows E17 without a problem. Has anyone come across anything like this before?
Apologies for all the questions.
I am currently tweaking, tidying up and making sure everything works. Hopefully I will be able to upload a .pup/.sfs of the latest E17 for Puppy4x within the next few days.
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See Barry's blog,
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to remove the desktop icons, edit /root/.xinitrc
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Comment or remove the line:
rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin
That has done the trick! Cheers
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Right, here is my first release... and it is only 5.5mb!
1. Download .pet
2. Install .pet
3. Edit /root/.xinitrc and comment out the following line (around line 112) - Thanks MU!
rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin
4. Press ctrl, alt & backspace to close X
5. Run the following from the terminal
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1. Edit /root/.xinitrc and un-comment out the following line (around line 112)
rox -p /root/Choices/ROX-Filer/PuppyPin
2. Press ctrl, alt & backspace to close X
3. Run the following from the terminal
xwin jwm
4. Use the package manager to remove the .pet
This release is a straight forward build of the latest SVN source of E17. I have made no changes except to include the dependencies dbus and librsvg and the optional libpam which allows the 'lock screen' feature to work in E17.
As E17 is currently in development there will naturally be bugs and things that do not work. I will, from time to time, compile the latest SVN source and post a link in this thread. If you come across any fixes or handy extras that you think should be included please let me know in this thread and I will build a new release to include them.
I have tested this .pet on Puppy 4.12 and Puppy 4.2 (retro kernels), if anyone has any trouble with different versions of Puppy let me know and I will see what I can do.
There is a nice selection of themes available
If anyone wants the dev files in another .pet let me know.
Finally, this is my first go at making a .pet and I have only been using puppy since the weekend so please excuse any Puppy faux pas.
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I have already done it....
I really like Macpup but I wanted to stick to the standard release rather than a puplet as I am new to puppy. I couldn't find a .pet anywhere so I thought I would make one
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Manual install Enlightenment DR17 (E17) for Lucid Puppy 5.25
I was in the same situation as pcampbell87 and thought I'd post my work as well, since most information I could find was usually outdated. Keep in mind the date on this post too
and check the relevant links below to see if anything has changed. I'll refer to Enlightenment DR17 as E17 since it's shorter.
A pet package is an easy sure-thing solution. The downside is that it would slowly become outdated and it would need additional configuration to suit the user. There are some scripts for installing or updating E17 and one could be modified for puppy, but the script itself would need to be updated over time. Also, dependencies and configuration changes would have to be settled. So I'll list the manual approach.
I used the compile arguments listed on
puppy's compile page
in combination with
E17's user guide installation instructions
. I recommend checking E17's download page for what order to install packages in instead of the user guide. The download page seemed to be updated more often, and at the time of this post, it included an extra package(eeze).
E17 is in active development and is "technically" not officially released yet, so the current build could have bugs or other issues.
Installing E17 from SVN for Lucid Puppy 5.25:
1. Make sure
is loaded.
2. At least the edje package requires a header file included in the liblua-dev package. This can be installed with the puppy package manager, but make sure you DON"T TRIM THE FAT or the header files won't be installed. Install the two dependencies(liblua,readline-dev) for liblua-dev.
3. Make a directory for E17 source files.
Open Urxvt
mkdir ~/e17
cd ~/e17
4. Download e17 source files.
svn co http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/eina eina-svn
svn co http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/eet eet-svn
svn co http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/evas evas-svn
svn co http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/ecore ecore-svn
svn co http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/embryo embryo-svn
svn co http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/edje edje-svn
svn co http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/efreet efreet-svn
svn co http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/e_dbus e_dbus-svn
svn co http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/eeze eeze-svn
svn co http://svn.enlightenment.org/svn/e/trunk/e e17-svn
5. Install each package in the same order they were downloaded in.
cd ~/e17/eina-svn
./autogen.sh CFLAGS="-mtune=generic -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" --prefix="/usr" --sysconfdir="/etc" --localstatedir="/var" --host="i486-pc-linux-gnu"
make install
Repeat this for each package.
Notes: I got some complaints that -02 was an unrecognized option but it still compiled ok. ./autogen.sh makes a configure file and passes it's arguments to it, so if you do './autogen.sh --help', it shows './configure --help'. Maybe different compile options and less packages can make it 'lighter' for pup.
6. Before starting E17, it might be easier to configure some things first(read the section below). Once you are ready to start E17, log out of your current window manager and type 'xwin enlightenment_start' (or 'xwin enlightenment' if you configured .xinitrc the way I mentioned below). On the first run, a menu(in /etx/xdg/menus) and some quick-launch apps can be picked. I could only pick System Default or English for the language. Picking English caused setlocale errors in the terminal. All of these settings can be changed later in the settings anyway. I think the
E17 user guide
(though a little outdated) is the best resource for learning how to use E17. The e17 directory you created can be deleted to free up some space. The liblua package is required for E17 to run. The liblua-dev and readline-dev packages can be removed, but you might want to keep them for installing a newer E17 later. And they may be needed for installing some extra modules.
Enable Shutdown and Restart:
Puppy has it's own scripts for shutdown and restart, so E17 needs to be configured for these.
Edit /etc/enlightenment/sysactions.conf and replace '/sbin/shutdown -h now' with '/usr/bin/wmpoweroff' and replace '/sbin/shutdown -r now' with /usr/bin/wmreboot
E17 is officially started with 'enlightenment_start' but Puppy must use 'xwin enlightenment' for wmpoweroff(and other stuff) to work. This is because the name used by xwin is used by wmpoweroff to shut down E17's process, which is named 'enlightenment', without the '_start'. So it's up to .xinitrc to start it the right way.
Edit /root/.xinitrc (
A type-o in this file could prevent all window managers from starting, so back it up beforehand or copy a 'clean' one from a pup_ro folder(usually pup_ro2) in /initrd if it failed.) Note: Spaces and caps matter so pay close attention to them.
Near the bottom of the file, find where it says: #exec $CURRENTWM
On the line above that, add the following:
if [ "$CURRENTWM" = "enlightenment" ];then
Disable fbpanel and ROX Pinboard: (having previously completed the section on shutdown/restart)
In /root/.xinitrc, find where it says: #if jwm, icewm, openbox or fluxbox then we run rox-desktop
On the line below that(Again, check for spaces) add: '&& "$CURRENTWM" != "enlightenment" '
Then find: #only launch tray for w.m. without inbuilt tray...
And do the same with the line under that one.
fbpanel seems to work ok with E17, so it can still be used if preferred Though E17's default shelf can be configured to have the same functionality as fbpanel. I couldn't get the ROX Pinboard to show over E17's desktop. It does at first but once you click the mouse it gets covered. In an older
, rarsa suggested loading the pinboard after E17 has initialized but I couldn't get it to work.
Desktop icons:
You can use shelves or EFM(E17's file manager) for your desktop icons. The ROX Pinboard icon data stored in /root/Choices/ROX-Filer can be useful for setting up icons manually for E17.
You can use one or multiple shelves-with-ibars for holding any number of icons, but there is a limit to the location and number of shelves. More flexibility can come from using multiple desktops, each having their own shelves.
With EFM activated, there should already be some basic icons on the desktop(home, root, temp). You will find relative links to these .desktop files in /root/Desktop. So to add an icon, you could just make a link in this folder from a .desktop file in /usr/share/applications, or just copy a file from that folder and change it's contents. EFM has a setting to show device icons but it doesn't work with puppy. /sbin/pup_event_frontend_d makes entries for ROX Pinboard. Might be able to add something to this script to make/delete .desktop files for EFM?
Application Menu:
Enlightenment follows the
xdg menu standard
. Puppy already had some category menu files in /etc/xdg/menus so I put all of them into one menu file(Download below), and it should be placed in the same directory. I changed some inline limits and I removed some entries I thought unnecessary for E17. The menu can be chosen on the first run, and also at any time in E17's settings: Main Menu - Settings - Settings Panel - Menu - Menu Settings - Advanced - Applications - Select a menu - Apply - Open another main menu - enlightenment - restart - try it out. I think 'enlightenment - restart' will only restart the window manager, not X or the computer. This should be done when selecting a different menu file but does not need to be done when making changes to the current file in use. For more information and an example menu:
Old E wiki
(may be moved soon)
Extra modules/apps:
Just about all of the modules/apps can be downloaded and installed in the same way as E17. A lot of the modules/apps are useless, broken, outdated, or under development. More information and screenshots can be found on the other links listed below, but most point their download links to the
. In the E_MODULES_EXTRA part of the svn, there should be a README that lists descriptions for most of those modules. You could also try to browse each module's folder. Sometimes a description is listed on the screen or in a README file. Check comments and reviews for modules on the sites below to get more up-to-date information and help.
(Themes, applications, modules)
(Themes, applications, modules)
Also try a google code search for e17, enlightenment.
Places, Penguins, others
Itask, Itask-NG, Winlist NG
Detour theme
ETK(toolkit) and EWL(widget library) are mentioned in some places. I found something that said both of those are no longer maintained and they have been replaced by Elementary.
Most theme types(full theme, startup theme, .edj files) can be placed in ~/.e/e/themes.
: seems to be a combination of the ibox(holds minimized apps) and ibar(quick launch). It is similar to the Mac OS X dockbar.
: on code.google says it was based of the good old Engage but the readme on the svn says to use Engage instead. I went with Engage.
: is a module for mounting/unmounting devices. This doesn't work with puppy out of the box.
)Several statistical modules work well when configured, though they may be replaced in the near future.
): Some eye candy mods that work but are otherwise a waste of resources.
Some extra modules add features to some modules already in E17:
: Is an alternative launcher.
: Extra modules help with navigation. After downloading and installing, go to EFM's configuration in E17's settings and have it show the toolbar, then add the new mods to the toolbar when using EFM. I haven't used ROX or EFM extensively, but I'm guessing ROX is much better. It definitely loads a directory list faster, though I'm more used to EFM's cut and past.
Unzip and put in /etc/xdg/menus. Edit the file to see comments about removed menu items.
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Old Buddapup gave me need to test enlightenment with raw Slacko 64 bit,
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Kashmir is known as Paradise on earth, Kashmir is the place that is very blessed with organic beauty of incredible ponds, hill stations, and valleys and so on. Jammu & Kashmir express is classified in three regions which are Jammu, Kashmir along with Ladakh. All the 3 regions are unique of their own ways and possess different things regarding tourists to check out.
Kashmir Tour packages are famous for organic beauty of lakes, environment friendly valleys, hill station and so on. Srinagar city is actually famous attraction of the valley. Srinagar is the summer capital involving J & E. Srinagar has several beautiful attractions just like Mughal gardens and world renowned Dal Lake. The Mughal gardens inside the city include involving Nishat Bagh, Shalimar Yard, and many additional. These gardens are on the banks of Dal Lake and possess a beautiful look at of Zabarwan hills. These gardens are the great work involving Mughals who use to travel to valley during summer to beat the warmth.
In Kashmir, you ought to not forget to travel to Pahalgam Valley. Phalagam is also called the Valley of Shepherds and it's a popular tourist destination. Pahalgam is a lot cold in summers also as Kolahoi Glacier is merely 35 kilometers from your valley. Many tourist visit Pahalgam to help beat the summer's heat. People who choose Amarnath yatra also move across Pahalgam Valley. Pahalgam valley is the famous destinations involving Kashmir Tours.
Another famous destination inside the Valley to check out is Gulmarg- Field of Flowers. Gulmarg is well-known destination for skiing and also other winter sports activities. The upper regions of Gulmarg also reveal the borders with Pakistan region. Throughout summers, you will quickly realize the enormous greenery around. It is wonderful hill station to take pleasure from your voyage with your friends and relations.
Kashmir Tourism can also be flourishing for their great art along with culture. The art of Kashmir is visible in many things the other among them is Houseboat that's the great fine art of Kashmiri artists. Houseboat is all composed of wood and most of the tourists love staying in the houseboat. Kashmir art can be seeing in weaving Shawls like Pashmina and lots of handicraft products like paper-Mache and so on.


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Pimp my Type 97B!
Quite possibly the strongest built AEG made, with a high level of realism as well. High quality internals, good accuracy and a quick spring-change make this a great AEG for the skirmisher, once you connect a powerful battery to supercharge the mechanism to drive strong springs.
The little brother of the Type 97, the Type 97B is gaining popularity, and we can't say it's a big surprise. Who wouldn't like a weapon that has reliable and durable internals out of the box, compact size, excellent accuracy and is built with a forged, CNC-machined and hard-anodized receiver as standard? The small type battery won't cycle the hardest upgrades, but this compact AEG is very appealing for CQB use. Please also see our review for the Type 97 for reference.
As the build of the AEG consists of a forged and CNC-machined receiver with an all steel outer barrel mated to it by a solid connection, we dare to say this is physically the strongest AEG manufactured to date. Especially the short Type 97B, having the benefit of the short leverage, is so strong you could run through a wall and should be more worried about your bones than the weapon. Part of the reason is that the RS Type 97 and 97B are made from the same polymer plastic material as the real steel Type 97. Mounting a proper two- or three point sling won't cause flexing and bending like on plastic bodied guns, and in the picture we show a MilSpex Three Point Tactical Sling installed. The front sling mount on this short carbine model is a small eyelet suitable for hook type attachments, while the rear is the usual wide type for a strap.
On the 14mm left-hand (CCW) threads we installed a suitable "can" for the looks. The King Arms OPS Silencer completes the overall look perfectly and dampens the muzzle pop effectively. While most of an AEG sound comes from the gearbox, this is most audible to the shooter, so reducing the muzzle pop will change the sound and make the shooter less easy to spot from the front. A 363 mm inner barrel can be used with the original muzzle device, while a silencer allows to install a longer inner barrel. However, even the original inner barrel provided pleasing velocities and accuracy clearly better than average, so we stuck with that.
The aesthetics of the Type 97B is something that grows on you. Maybe it's because a well-performing AEG is easier to like, or it just took a bit of getting used to. In any case, the Type 97B looks very futuristic and the appeal can be increased even more with the right choice of parts. The Picatinny Rail is a worthy piece to mount optics on it, such as a red dot sight of your choice.
Since the AEG was released, we have put it through its paces with some harder upgrades, as is the norm in Hong Kong. You can tell that the internal parts are high quality already by looking at them, but of course no estimates can beat practical experience. As the spring-change feature of the Type 97 series don't require opening up the whole gearbox, you can quickly tune the weapon for different velocity settings. As implied by the quality of the internal parts, upgrading the Type 97 series is simply a matter of choosing a spring for the desired velocity, and a battery to cycle it. The sound remains smooth even under stronger springs, and even after extended use there was neglible wear on the internal parts.
Changing the spring requires just one tool. It is useful if your phillips screwdriver has a thin shaft to make seating the spring guide easier. Takedown is started by pushing out the takedown pins and removing the stock and grip. The mock bolt carrier comes off after removing one screw, and the trigger bar can be disconnected after one more screw. Removing the third and final screw below the gearbox allows you to slide the gearbox back and out of the receiver. All this takes a couple of minutes only and the washers on the screws are captive, so it's not an unrealistic task to perform even at the gaming site.
With spring rates this high, the original small type internal battery falls short to provide power to cycle the mechanism with a good rate of fire. While it is possible to build a lithium battery inside, an easier option is to use a large type battery together with a MilSpex Battery Sling. This allows you to use a large enough battery for any thinkable upgrade level.
Despite the piston being short-stroked by one tooth compared to regular AEGs, the Type 97B followed the nominal velocities of Systema AEG springs accurately. Systema springs are rated to indicate the metric velocity with a 0.2 gram BB from a 330 mm inner barrel, so an M120 spring should produce 120 m/s of velocity. In our tests the M120 spring provided 398 fps (121.99 m/s) very consistently from shot to shot, with the occasional 397 fps and 399 fps in between. The quality of KSC Perfect BBs is of course one factor, but it also shows the precision put into the pneumatics department. Changing to an M140 spring provided an average velocity of 460 fps, which translates to 1.96 Joules of energy. This is perfect for our local Hong Kong players with a legal limit of 2 Joules imposed by the authorities.
All in all, this experiment of ours just adds notches to the belt of Real Sword. The AEG has lots of neat design points, and the quality is as good on the inside as it is on the surface and everywhere in between. While MilSim players would not be that quick to get a Type 97B (unless they are mimicing special forces from Cambodia or Sri Lanka...), it's an effective players' weapon with lots of upgrade potential. The looks may divide people already because of the bullpup configuration, but as a homage to mainstream it uses your good ol' M16 magazines.
Got accuracy? Check out this video made by Real Sword, where the Type 97B is used to repeatedly nail 25.4 mm (1") coins from a distance of 10 meters (33 ft)!


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Release date: May 23, 2000
Tracks: (Click for codes to singles charts.) Public Service Announcement 2000 / Kill You / Stan (10/7/00, #48a US, #1 UK, #31 RB) / Paul / Who Knew / Steve Berman / The Way I Am (8/5/00, #52a US, #8 UK, #22a RB) / The Real Slim Shady (5/6/00, #2a US, #1 UK, #10a RB, #19 MR) / Remember Me? / I'm Back / Marshall Mathers / Ken Kaniff / Drug Ballad (3/17/01, #65a RB) / Amityville / Bitch Please II (7/8/00, #51a RB) / Kim / Under the Influence / Criminal
Sales (in millions): 10.07 US, 2.23 UK, 6.0 Europe, 23.35 world
Peak: 18 US, 12 UK
Review: "It's hard to know what to make of Eminem." AMG "His debut, The Slim Shady LP, established [him] as a major force in both hip-hop and broader contemporary culture, but there was still doubt as to whether he would be the latest in a string of short-lived white rap novelties." TL "Even if you know that half of what he says is sincere and half is a put-on; the trick is realizing that there's truth in the joke, and vice versa. Many dismissed his considerable skills as a rapper and social satirist because the vulgarity and gross-out humor on The Slim Shady LP were too detailed for some to believe that it was anything but real." AMG
"To Eminem's credit, he decided to exploit that confusion on his masterful second record, The Marshall Mathers LP." AMG "Rap's superlative wordsmith blurs the line between autobiography and cartoons in hilarious and vulgar high-velocity rhymes." UT It is "a fairly brilliant expansion of his debut, turning his spare, menacing hip-hop into a hyper-surreal, wittily disturbing thrill ride. It's both funnier and darker than his debut, and Eminem's writing is so sharp and clever that the jokes cut as deeply as the explorations of his ruptured psyche." AMG "He lashed out at the hypocrisy of American society, exposed the prejudices that fuelled rap music, and held his constituency's psychosis up to the light." VU "The Marshall Mathers LP raised the stakes, raised his profile, and damn near raised the dead." TL
The Way I Am
"Eminem delivered dizzying, blistering rhymes that laid bare his neuroses, his fury, and his confusion. He jumped from laugh-out-loud funny to chillingly menacing from one line to the next, and went after his critics (The Way I Am) and his fans (Stan, the mesmerizing high-wire act in a stalker's voice) with equal fever." TL
"The production is nearly as evocative as the raps, with liquid basslines, stuttering rhythms, slight sound effects, and spacious soundscapes. There may not be overpowering hooks on every track, but the album works as a whole, always drawing the listener in. But, once you're in, Eminem doesn't care if you understand exactly where he's at, and he doesn't offer any apologies if you can't sort the fact from the fiction. As an artist, he's supposed to create his own world, and with this terrific second effort, he certainly has. It may be a world that is as infuriating as it is intriguing, but it is without question his own, which is far more than most of his peers are able to accomplish at the dawn of a new millennium." AMG
The Real Slim Shady
Resources and Related Links:
- Eminem's DMDB Encyclopedia entry
- album page on DMDB website (even more in-depth look at album)
- AMG All Music Guide review by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
- TL Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Albums by Josh Tyrangiel and Alan Light (11/13/06).
- UT USA Today, Top 40 Albums – the USA Today Way (12/5/2003).
- VU VH1 Ultimate Albums TV series (2002-03).


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If you've got eight minutes to kill and want to watch Shia LaBeouf nude in a softcore porn video to an atmospheric piano medley, then boy do I have a video for you! As part of "The Valtari Mystery Film Experiment" from Icelandic band, Sigur Ros, LaBeouf starred in this inspired music video from director, Alma Har'el (Bombay Beach). The experiment in question started with the band extending an invitation to 12 filmmakers to take a modest budget and create an original vision representing each one of their songs. The result was the marketing gimmick: See Shia LaBeouf's Penis. Hit the jump to do just that.
Anytime I write the phrase: See So-and-So's Penis!, you should assume that the video that follows will be extremely NSFW. I don't know if Har'el was inspired by 70s porn and interpretive dance or if LaBeouf was tired of hearing all that talk about Michael Fassbender and his…performance in Shame, but this is kind of a combination of all of the above. Or it's a really elaborate American Apparel ad…I'm not entirely sure. Check out the video below and please, for the love of God, leave your reactions in the comments section.
Here's a description of "The Valtari Mystery Film Experiment" from Sigur Ros' website:
sigur rós have given a dozen film makers the same modest budget and asked them to create whatever comes into their head when they listen to songs from the band's new album valtari. the idea is to bypass the usual artistic approval process and allow people utmost creative freedom. among the filmmakers are ramin bahrani, alma har'el and john cameron mitchell.
"we never meant our music to come with a pre-programmed emotional response. we don't want to tell anyone how to feel and what to take from it. with the films, we have literally no idea what the directors are going to come back with. none of them know what the others are doing, so hopefully it could be interesting."


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|Interior of the synagogue in Mikulov, one of the 10 Stars sites, which is undergoing restructuring as part of the project. Photo © Ruth Ellen Gruber
By Ruth Ellen Gruber
This also appears on my En Route blog for the Los Angeles Jewish Journal
I've written an article for JTA about the Czech Republic's 10 Stars project -- an innovative Jewish heritage project that will amount to a nationwide Jewish Museum with 10 thematic exhibits located in 10 restored synagogue in 10 different towns and cities around the country: Úštěk, Jičín, and Brandýs nad Labem to the north; Plzeň and Březnice to the west; Nová Cerekev and Polná in the south-central part of the country; Boskovice, Mikulov and Krnov to the east..
The project is being coordinated by the Czech Federation of Jewish Communities, which owns the buildings, with 85 percent of the funding coming from a $14 million grant from the European Union. About 15 percent of the financing is being provided by the Czech Culture Ministry.
"It's actually one museum scattered around the country," said Tomas Kraus, the executive director of the federation.
"The exhibition in each site will be linked to one certain phenomenon in Jewish history, culture, religion, traditions," he said. "The idea is that if you visit one of the sites, even by chance, you will realize that there are nine other parts of the exhibition, so you will want to visit them, too."
To encourage this, 10 Stars will issue a "passport" that can be stamped each time a person visits one of the synagogues in the network. When all 10 stamps are filled in, the passport can be redeemed for a prize.
10 Stars is due to open in October 2013, around the time of the new Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw. But it so far has received little publicity -- even its web site is only in Czech, limiting the audience.
I have visited a number ot these sites already: some of them were already restored in earlier years but are now undergoing maintenance and other work. Exhibits that already existed in the synagogues at Boskovice, Mikulov, Ustek and Polna are being revamped or expanded as part of the 10 Stars program.
In Ustek, the rabbi's house next door to the restored synagogue will be used to house an exhibit on Jewish education. The restored Jewish schoolroom, already installed in the basement of the synagogue, will remain as part of the new exhibit.
Ustek synagogue. Photo © Ruth Ellen Gruber
Recreated Jewish schoolroom installed in Ustek synagogue basement. Photo © Ruth Ellen Gruber


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Facebook has opened a one-week period for members to vote on the social network's controversial data and privacy policy changes, which include the right to keep voting in the future.
The Menlo Park company opened its virtual polling place, giving registered Facebook members until 12 p.m. Pacific time on Monday, Dec. 10, to cast their vote. If more than 30 percent of active registered members vote, the results are binding. But if the turnout is less than 30 percent – and if past results are a guide, that's likely – the results will only be advisory and Facebook could do what it wants to do.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Center for Digital Democracy oppose the changes, saying the proposal could adversely affect the privacy rights of Facebook members and violate a recent settlement between the company and the Federal Trade Commission.
EPIC is mounting a campaign in favor of keeping the existing documents and then sharing that vote on Facebook. It's a get-out-the-vote-to-keep-the-vote campaign.
"The changes in the Statement of Rights and Responsibilities will end online voting," EPIC President Marc Rotenberg said. "That's wrong."
Elliot Schrage, Facebook's vice president for communications, public policy and marketing, said in a blog post that the company has clarified its proposals based on feedback from members and the Irish Data Protection Commissioner's Office, the regulatory agency that covers most of Facebook's international membership.
"For example, you asked us to clarify proposed language in our Data Use Policy explaining that we will share information with our corporate affiliates," he said. "This provision is standard in the industry and promotes the efficient and effective use of the services Facebook and its affiliates provide – for example, permitting information to be shared with our affiliates allows our users in the United States (whose services are provided by Facebook Inc.) to interact with our users in Europe (whose services are provided by Facebook Ireland Ltd.). We've revised this proposal to make it clear that the sharing of information among our affiliates is and will be done in compliance with all applicable laws, and where additional consent of our users is required, we will obtain it."
Facebook will host a live webcast at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday for company officials in the U.S. and in Ireland to field questions.
The early vote shows Facebook's proposed changes losing by a margin of about 7 to 1, but with fewer than 10,000 total votes cast.


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When Jim Hairston from Pertronix sent us the Ignitor II drop-in electronic ignition for older, point-triggered Autolite and Motorcraft distributors, it was deja vu all over again. Ten years ago, we were gushing over the new Ignitor drop-in electronic-ignition module. It was easy as pie, requiring only 30 minutes to install, and when we turned the ignition key, combustion was instantaneous. The Ignitor II generates the same kind of rush because it's easy to install--and it works!
Why Ignitor II when the Ignitor was a smash hit for more than a decade? Pertronix has never been a company to rest on its accomplishments. It remains committed to new developments throughout its product line. The continuing evolution of the drop-in Ignitor retrofit is a case in point.
The Ignitor II differs from the Ignitor in that it's a "smart" ignition system, able to sense current levels of power in the ignition coil and adjust the dwell as you drive. We're talking more than four times the available energy from the coil than in a point-triggered distributor! When you add the Pertronix Flame-Thrower II coil, ignition energy doubles. What's more, the Ignitor II adjusts spark timing as rpm changes. The Ignitor II also watches over your shoulder, automatically shutting off the ignition system if the ignition switch is accidentally left on. And check this out--the Ignitor II is California emissions certified, making it one of the greatest value mods in the business.


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The Bedouin of Sinai
The Bedouin community in St Catherine's – and throughout the Sinai – is severely marginalized to the extent that the Egyptian authorities do not even collate official statistics on them. Few Bedouin work in the region's hotels, restaurants and travel agencies, and guiding is generally the only legal form of employment available – little surprise that some Bedouin become involved in illegal activities. A few NGOs are working to improve the situation, including the Community Foundation for South Sinai (w southsinaifoundation.org), which is based in St Catherine's and supports sustainable development, education, employment, health and conservation projects.
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The weeks are just rushing by!
First of all an apology to all my blog friends - I have had to call a blog amnesty as I have been so busy this week that I could not face the 163 blog posts I came home to yesterday and so marked them all as read and started afresh today.
I never thought I would have a week as busy and as enjoyable as I have had the past week. I have been to an amazing choral concert in London in a church called St James Garlichythe and then for a reception at Dyer's Hall, both such fabulous buildings.
Spent the weekend at a scrapping retreat,
I have taught a class to 30 ladies, who seemed to like what I had designed and taken six classes. Now that is a tale to tell! So how much did I get done? True to form, from 8:00 Friday until 6:00 Sunday afternoon I managed 1 finished class, 1 layout of my own and a little present for Gracia.
So on Friday I took a beautiful class taught by Mel and it was a mini-book.
This is how far I got!
On Saturday I took a layout class with Susanne and I managed to finish it :)
During the day I also managed to make this layout - when I got the photo printed in Sainsburys the boy on the photographic counter asked me "Why have you go a random photo of someone's feet?" I thought to myself "You're obviously not a scrapbooker or it would be obvious!"
I also made this
I am so pleased as I had it in mind for a long time in fact ever since I made her the G. I am going to send it to Gracia nearer to Christmas for her room at Uni and sincerely hope it will become a treasure she gets out each Christmas.
On Sunday I took a class by Jane and it was the most scrumptious and sparkly Christmas album - truly and absolutely gorgeous. I got this far! no pages and no embellishments in yet.
I then took another class by Susanne - a Christmas star. Guess what, yet another unfinished project. I managed to get the star constructed but none of the beautiful decorations that Susanne had on hers.
On to my third class of the day and yet another beautiful mini book. This time designed by Karen and it was made to record things you are grateful for. By this time in the afternoon, after lunch and two previous classes I was just grateful to be still standing! I loved the book but this is as far as I got.
It was now time for my forth class of the day and I am ashamed to say I bottled out of this one. It was the one I had been most looking forward to but by 4:15 was absolutely dead on my feet. I took the class pack and instructions and thus far it hasn't even made it out of the poly bag.
The plus side is that at the crop on Saturday I will have plenty to do and won't even have to pack as my bag is still packed from the weekend.
While I was at the crop I sat next to Christine, who also came with me to the Tim Holtzy frame with bits and bobs in that I made in August. We sat next to each other in several classes and have to say at times we were snorting with laughter. It was such a pleasure to find someone with a similar sense of humor and someone who shares my total lack of craft skills when in a class. We managed to cut paper wonky, I managed to drop double sided tape onto a piece of patterned paper that I needed and my first lot of shrink plastic butterflies for Susanne's class came out looking more like the chrysalis that the butterfly came out of than the butterfly itself. But the funny thing was that even when we took classes separately we still managed to make some mistake or other. I love Christine's company and hope to share time at a retreat with her again!
So that was my busy, busy week and this week doesn't look any easier. I have agreed to help with the Guide unit on Wednesday evening and am curious to see how I cope going from Rainbows to Guides in one huge leap. I am sure Natalie has it all planned beautifully and I will enjoy it but it will be very different - or maybe not.
Have a fabulous week.
Reasons to be cheerful:
1. I am sitting here listening to David play his cello as I type and it is such a relaxing sound.
2. Spending a weekend with friends old and new.
3. A little bit of crafting before I turn in for the night.


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Test Overview
A blood glucose test measures the amount of a type of sugar, called glucose, in your blood. Glucose comes from carbohydrate foods. It is the main source of energy used by the body. Insulin is a hormone that helps your body's cells use the glucose. Insulin is produced in the pancreas and released into the blood when the amount of glucose in the blood rises.
Normally, your blood glucose levels increase slightly after you eat. This increase causes your pancreas to release insulin so that your blood glucose levels do not get too high. Blood glucose levels that remain high over time can damage your eyes, kidneys, nerves, and blood vessels.
Control Your Blood Sugars
There are several different types of blood glucose tests.
- Fasting blood sugar (FBS) measures blood glucose after you have not eaten for at least 8 hours. It is often the first test done to check for prediabetes and diabetes.
- 2-hour postprandial blood sugar measures blood glucose exactly 2 hours after you start eating a meal. This is not a test used to diagnose diabetes. This test is used to see if someone with diabetes is taking the right amount of insulin with meals.
- Random blood sugar (RBS) measures blood glucose regardless of when you last ate. Several random measurements may be taken throughout the day. Random testing is useful because glucose levels in healthy people do not vary widely throughout the day. Blood glucose levels that vary widely may mean a problem. This test is also called a casual blood glucose test.
- Oral glucose tolerance test is used to diagnose prediabetes and diabetes. An oral glucose tolerance test is a series of blood glucose measurements taken after you drink a sweet liquid that contains glucose. This test is commonly used to diagnose diabetes that occurs during pregnancy (gestational diabetes). Women who had high blood sugar levels during pregnancy may have oral glucose tolerance tests after pregnancy.
- Hemoglobin A1c, or glycohemoglobin, measures how much sugar (glucose) is stuck to red blood cells. This test can be used to diagnose diabetes. It also shows how well your diabetes has been controlled in the past 2 to 3 months and whether your diabetes medicine needs to be changed. The result of your A1c test can be used to estimate your average blood sugar level. This is called your estimated average glucose, or eAG.
To make a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, your doctor will use the American Diabetes Association's criteria.
Why It Is Done
Blood glucose tests are done to:
- Check for prediabetes and diabetes.
- Monitor treatment of diabetes.
- Check for diabetes that occurs during pregnancy (gestational diabetes).
- Determine if an abnormally low blood sugar level (hypoglycemia) is present. A test to measure blood levels of insulin and a protein called C-peptide may be done along with a blood glucose test to determine the cause of hypoglycemia. To learn more, see the topic C-Peptide.
How To Prepare
Fasting blood sugar (FBS)
This is one of several tests that is used to diagnose diabetes. For a fasting blood sugar test, do not eat or drink anything other than water for at least 8 hours before the blood sample is taken.
If you have diabetes, you may be asked to wait until you have had your blood tested before taking your morning dose of insulin or diabetes medicine. You may have a random blood sugar test instead, which will not require an 8-hour fast.
2-hour postprandial blood sugar
For a 2-hour postprandial test, start eating a meal exactly 2 hours before the blood sample is taken. A home blood sugar test is the most common way to check 2-hour postprandial blood sugar levels.
Blood Sugar Control and Insulin
Random blood sugar (RBS) and hemoglobin A1c
No special preparation is required before having a random blood sugar or A1c test.
Oral glucose tolerance test
For an oral glucose tolerance test, you'll need to follow a special diet for 3 days before the test. And do not eat, drink, smoke, or exercise strenuously for at least 8 hours before your first blood sample is taken.
To learn more about how to prepare for this test, see Oral Glucose Tolerance Test.
Talk to your doctor about any concerns you have regarding the need for the test, its risks, how it will be done, or what the results may mean.
To help you understand the importance of this test, fill out the medical test information form(What is a PDF document?).
How It Is Done
The health professional taking a sample of your blood will:
- Wrap an elastic band around your upper arm to stop the flow of blood. This makes the veins below the band larger so it is easier to put a needle into the vein.
- Clean the needle site with alcohol.
- Put the needle into the vein. More than one needle stick may be needed.
- Attach a tube to the needle to fill it with blood.
- Remove the band from your arm when enough blood is collected.
- Apply a gauze pad or cotton ball over the needle site as the needle is removed.
- Apply pressure to the site and then a bandage.
How It Feels
The blood sample is taken from a vein in your arm. An elastic band is wrapped around your upper arm. It may feel tight. You may feel nothing at all from the needle, or you may feel a quick sting or pinch.
There is very little risk of a problem from having blood drawn from a vein.
- You may develop a small bruise at the puncture site. You can reduce the risk of bruising by keeping pressure on the site for several minutes after the needle is withdrawn.
- In rare cases, the vein may become inflamed after the blood sample is taken. This condition is called phlebitis and is usually treated with a warm compress applied several times daily.
- Continued bleeding can be a problem for people with bleeding disorders. Aspirin, warfarin (Coumadin), and other blood-thinning medicines can also make bleeding more likely. If you have bleeding or clotting problems, or if you take blood-thinning medicine, tell your health professional before your blood is drawn.
Control Your Blood Sugars
A blood glucose test measures the amount of a type of sugar, called glucose, in your blood.
Results are often ready in 1 to 2 hours. Glucose levels in a blood sample taken from your vein (called a blood plasma value) may differ a little from glucose levels checked with a finger stick.
The normal values listed here-called a reference range-are just a guide. These ranges vary from lab to lab, and your lab may have a different range for what's normal. Your lab report should contain the range your lab uses. Also, your doctor will evaluate your results based on your health and other factors. This means that a value that falls outside the normal values listed here may still be normal for you or your lab.
Fasting blood glucose:1
Less than or equal to 100 milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) (5.6 millimoles per liter, or mmol/L).
2 hours after eating (postprandial):2
Less than 140 mg/dL (7.8 mmol/L) for people age 50 and younger; less than 150 mg/dL (8.3 mmol/L) for people ages 50-60; less than 160 mg/dL (8.9 mmol/L) for people age 60 and older.
Random (casual):3
Levels vary depending on when and how much you ate at your last meal. In general: 80-120 mg/dL (4.4-6.6 mmol/L) before meals or when waking up; 100-140 mg/dL (5.5-7.7 mmol/L) at bedtime.
Many conditions can change your blood glucose levels. Your doctor will discuss any significant abnormal results with you in relation to your symptoms and past health.
For more information on results from an oral glucose tolerance test or hemoglobin A1c test, see:
- Oral Glucose Tolerance Test.
- Glycohemoglobin (HbA1c, A1c).
High values
You may have diabetes. To make a diagnosis of type 2 diabetes, your doctor will use the American Diabetes Association's criteria.
Other conditions that can cause high blood glucose levels include:
- Severe stress.
- Heart attack.
- Stroke.
- Cushing's syndrome.
- Medicines such as corticosteroids.
- Excess production of growth hormone (acromegaly).
Blood Sugar Control and Insulin
Low values
A fasting glucose level below 40 mg/dL (2.2 mmol/L) in women or below 50 mg/dL (2.8 mmol/L) in men that is accompanied by symptoms of hypoglycemia may mean you have an insulinoma, a tumor that produces abnormally high amounts of insulin.
Low glucose levels also may be caused by:
- Addison's disease.
- Decreased thyroid hormone levels (hypothyroidism).
- A tumor in the pituitary gland.
- Liver disease, such as cirrhosis.
- Kidney failure.
- Malnutrition or an eating disorder, such as anorexia.
- Medicines used to treat diabetes.
What Affects the Test
Reasons you may not be able to have the test or why the results may not be helpful include:
- Eating or drinking less than 8 hours before a fasting blood test or less than 2 hours before a 2-hour postprandial test.
- Drinking alcohol on the day of the test or several days before the test.
- Illness or emotional stress, smoking, and caffeine.
- Taking a medicine. Make sure that your doctor knows about any medicines you take and how often you take them.
What To Think About
- Glucose levels in urine can also be measured. Many people with diabetes have glucose in their urine. But the level in the blood must be very high before glucose can be detected in the urine. For this reason, tests for glucose in urine are not used to diagnose or monitor diabetes. To learn more, see Urine Test.
- If you have diabetes, you will be able to measure your blood glucose levels at home. To learn more, see Home Blood Glucose Test.
Pagana KD, Pagana TJ (2010). Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby.
Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009). Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
Chernecky CC, Berger BJ (2013). Laboratory Tests and Diagnostic Procedures, 6th ed. St. Louis: Saunders.
Other Works Consulted
American Diabetes Association (2015). Standards of medical care in diabetes-2015. Diabetes Care, 38(Suppl 1): S1-S93.
Pagana KD, Pagana TJ (2010). Mosby's Manual of Diagnostic and Laboratory Tests, 4th ed. St. Louis: Mosby Elsevier.
Fischbach FT, Dunning MB III, eds. (2009). Manual of Laboratory and Diagnostic Tests, 8th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.
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Red Gate Software is announcing SQL in the City today, a series of events that will bring a free day of training to a few locations later this year. The events will be free and features specific Red Gate products and solutions to the common problems and situations that many SQL Server professionals face. It's a mini tour with a few people from Red Gate and a few local speakers as well. We have two dates/locations scheduled so far, and we're hoping for more soon.
London. July 15, 2011.
Once again I'll be heading across the pond. I will probably go 3-4 days early since it seems I regularly have issues flying internationally, but I'll be there, along with fellow Microsoft MVPs Brad McGehee (blog | @bradmcgehee) and Grant Fritchey (blog | @gfritchey). There will be a few Red Gate people and MVP Mladen Prajdić is going to be giving a talk as well. We will be at One Wimpole St, wherever that is in London. Hopefully someone will ensure I arrive at the right place.
It's a full day of SQL training and networking, giving you the chance to pick one of two tracks and learn some development tricks and tips, or come over to my track and learn how administrators deal with the problems they face on a regular basis. The agenda has a variety of topics that you'll want to see. I'll be doing the Preparation for Disaster talk, showing you some of the issues you might face at work and how to prepare for them, and recover from large and small disasters. It will feature some Red Gate tools that speed up your problem solving.
There are some other great sessions, and if you will be in London on July 15, 2011, register for the event.
The City of Angels
We'll do it again on Oct 28, 2011 in Los Angeles, just before DevConnections. Brad, Grant, and I will be in the City of Angels for a Friday event and probably heading out to enjoy a few drinks that evening.
The agenda is similar, though Mladen isn't making the trip across the water (lucky guy). Instead we have MVP and MCM Denny Cherry, expert on hardware, virtualization, and security in SQL Server joining us to talk encryption and how you should protect your data.
This event will be at the Skirball Cultural Center in the Santa Monica mountains. A great location, and one I'm looking forward to visiting.
If you'll be in LA, please register and come see us.


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This website has been established as the primary means of communication for scheduled practices and games. The website is updated daily, however, there may be situations when instructions for the day are modified late and the website cannot be updated quickly. When this situation occurs we will make every attempt to notify you with the modification prior to the start of that night's practice/game. If, however, do not have access to email or text messaging, it is your responsibility to find out the latest information by calling the coach or someone else from the team.
By all means, NEVER DROP OFF OR LEAVE YOUR CHILD AT A FIELD OR ANY OTHER LOCATION UNSUPERVISIED WITHOUT VERIFYING THAT THE TEAM'S COACH IS PRESENT. The coaching staff dedicates their time on a volunteer basis and from time to time may have a problem getting out of work on time.
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Risk Factor Pathways Identified For PTSS In Female And Male Veterans
December 19, 2019
Researchers affiliated with Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have found that risk factors for post-traumatic stress symptomatology (PTSS) among Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF)/Operational Iraqi Freedom (OIF) male veterans were relatively similar to what was observed in a prior group of Vietnam veterans. The findings, which currently appear online in the Journal of Abnormal Psychology, suggest there are key pathways through which risk factors contribute to PTSS across different male veteran cohorts. In addition, the researchers also identified a number of novel mechanisms of risk for OEF/OIF female veterans.
A growing body of research indicates that certain individuals are at higher risk for mental health problems following exposure to traumatic events. Prior research on risk factors for PTSS in war-exposed Veterans has revealed both direct and indirect mechanisms of risk that span pre-deployment, deployment and post-deployment timeframes.
According to the researchers the goal of this study was to identify the mechanisms through which previously documented risk factors contribute to PTSS in a national sample of 579 female and male Veterans deployed for OEF and OIF, as well as to examine the extent to which results mirrored findings among Vietnam Veterans.
Consistent with the conservation of resources (COR) theory, their findings indicated that PTSS was accounted for by multiple chains of risk, many originating in pre-deployment experiences that placed both female and male Veterans at risk for additional stress exposure. In addition, the researchers observed that family relationships during deployment appeared to play a more prominent role in explaining female veterans' compared to male veterans' post-deployment readjustment.
"These findings provide support for the generalizability of mechanisms of risk for PTSS across Veteran groups, and suggest that there may be some key pathways through which risk factors contribute to PTSS that generalize across different Veteran populations," explained lead author Dawne Vogt, PhD, an associate professor of psychiatry at BUSM and researcher at the National Center for Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in the VA Boston Healthcare System.
"While risk factors for PTSS were fairly similar to what was observed among Vietnam veterans for male OEF/OIF veterans, Mechanisms of risk for female OEF/OIF Veterans were more similar to that observed for male OEF/OIF Veterans than for female Vietnam Veterans, underscoring women's expanding roles in the military and their increased exposure to combat-related stressors.
With respect to difference in specific mechanisms of risk, Vogt added that "concerns about relationship disruptions demonstrated a significant impact on PTSS through its effect on post-deployment stressors and post-deployment social support for women only, suggesting two additional avenues through which family concerns set the stage for PTSS in this group." Particularly noteworthy according to Vogt was the finding that women who reported experiencing more concerns about relationship disruptions also reported less post- deployment social support, as this finding indicates that relationship problems experienced during deployment may erode the support available to them when they return.
Future research efforts would benefit from examining whether these documented pathways are observed in other trauma populations. The researchers believe the identification of key mechanisms of risk that transcend the particular sample and trauma type under study can provide an important contribution to the literature.
This research was supported, in part, by a Department of Veterans Affairs Health Sciences Research and Development Service grant (PI: Susan Eisen, PhD) and the National Center for Post-traumatic Stress Disorder.
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ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) – Denver Broncos starting running back Montee Ball is sidelined with appendicitis and isn't expected back until the AFC champs' opener against Indianapolis on Sept. 7.
Ronnie Hillman and C.J. Anderson shared snaps with the first-string offense at practice Monday and are expected to get the bulk of the work in Ball's absence this month.
"I appreciate the get well wishes everyone! I will be ok and come back stronger than ever!!" Ball tweeted Monday shortly before he was scheduled for his appendectomy at a Denver hospital.
Ball, who set an NCAA record with 83 touchdowns at Wisconsin, assumed the No. 1 running back job this offseason. He was Knowshon Moreno's backup last year and ran for 559 yards and four touchdowns in 2013.
"Luckily it's early in camp and it'll give him a chance to come back," Hillman said.
Ball's strong second half helped the Broncos decide to let Moreno leave in free agency. Moreno signed with Miami.
Coach John Fox said Ball started feeling sick Sunday during the Broncos' day off "and of course came in today, again, not feeling very good." Fox said the good news was that the organ didn't burst "so it was really a blessing that we caught it now."
The Broncos have little doubt that Ball will be able to resume his role as the Broncos' lead back upon his return.
"I'm not into predicting the future, but he's really grown a lot as far as his understanding of the offense and execution of all parts of his job," Fox said. "Knowing what kind of guy he is, he'll work at it and mentally he'll stay on top of his game and then when he comes back physically, we'll wait until he's ready."
Ball's absence means Hillman, Anderson and a host of undrafted free agents, led by Duke's Juwan Thompson, will get more carries in their quest for a roster spot.
"You hate to see anything happen to a player, whether it's an illness or an injury on the field, but sometimes when a door shuts, another door opens," Fox said. "So, it'll give us a chance to get those young backs in there and hopefully they can grow and progress."
None of the Broncos' running backs have ever started an NFL game, although Hillman has the most experience with 25 career appearances despite getting benched over the last half of last season.
Although many see him as more of a change-of-pace back than a workhorse like Ball or even Anderson, Hillman's renewed focus on football during the offseason has made an impression.
"I've seen great growth," Fox said. "I think he's been a different guy in those meeting rooms. I think with a full offseason this year and him attacking it the way he did you're starting to see the benefits of that here on the field."
Running backs coach Eric Studesville was equally effusive in his praise for Hillman.
"I love what Ronnie has done," Studesville said last week. "From when we started this spring in April forward, he has been unbelievable. He's a completely different guy in the best possible way and I'm just excited about what he's doing, how he's approaching it, how he's making plays on the field. It's been great. It's been there the whole time, but we're finally seeing the maximum side of it."
Hillman said it's basically just an attitude adjustment, and "we're about to see how well it's paying off."
Anderson also has turned heads during camp after trimming down following a sluggish minicamp and OTAs. Asked what was different about him from a year ago, he said, "I know the playbook now and that makes me play faster."
At 5-foot-8 and 224 pounds, Anderson is squatter and thicker than Hillman (5-10, 195) and shows great leverage on blitz pickup like he did in Saturday's scrimmage when his block of linebacker Nate Irving allowed backup quarterback Brock Osweiler to escape.
This ability could get him significant preseason snaps with Peyton Manning.
"No matter if it's me or Ronnie in the game, with 18 we don't miss a beat," Anderson said. "So, we're going to keep this thing going."
Notes: WR Emmanuel Sanders (strained right thigh) and CB Tony Carter (groin pull) were among the new names on the Broncos post-practice injury update.
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Hey everyone! Mike Mo got to play tennis with Mats Wilander last week - cool stuff! And, we think he's now a Midnight Machete tennis clothing fan! Check out the 'new' Machete tennis shorts in the picture. Thanks for all your support! -Mike Mo Morrison www.midnightmachete.com
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I've seen Mats with Wilson racquets as well. That Rossignol design was pretty strange. I tried a lower model Rossignol and wasn't impressed.
Lucky to string for Jimbo! What was his tension on the T-2000?
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